How can the Filipino culture and values be described?

Values of Filipinos in the Philippines can best be described as a mixture, and may I use the term a “mixed blessing.” Filipinos ,like other nationalities, have both good and bad values. However, what makes Filipinos stand out in some ways is their capacity to laugh /smile in the midst of adversity. read more

The seven distinct elements in Filipino culture are: values, basic personality, basic social unit, politics, economics, technology and ecology. Each of these aspects of the Filipino culture has a body of ideas called "content" which gives form and meaning to each aspect. read more

Models of the Filipino values. F. Landa Jocano identified two models of the Filipino value system. The first is the exogenous model or the foreign model, while the second is the indigenous model or the traditional model. The foreign model is described to be a "legal and formal" model. read more